The Rills have unveiled a fiery new single, ‘I Don’t Wanna Be’, this week (May 30) – check it out below.
A statement about the punk-leaning indie song describes it as “a tale of unapologetic self-affirmation and outgrowing the limited mentality of small town living.”
It added: “No longer will The Rills allow anyone to hold them down or paint them as anybody but themselves. They’re finally confident in who they are and won’t stand to be told otherwise.”
“I have been a boy and a man, a cowboy and a sailor. A tailor, a saint, a beast and a failure. All of my successful guises are simply a trick of the light,” vocalist and guitarist Mitch Spencer said, discussing the song. “You can spend a lifetime wearing hats only to realise you don’t suit hats at all.”
Check out the new song here:
In a new statement, the band reflected on their beginnings during Covid and their subsequent rise following the release of two acclaimed EPs. “We were just a little idiot band,” Spencer explained. “Obviously we had these dreams, but then lockdown happened and we were forced into doing TikTok and all that stuff because we didn’t have a way to play or release music.”
After getting millions of TikTok likes and thousands of streams, the band garnered a huge fan base.
“All of a sudden, it blew up, we had fans and we we’re talking to the NME. Everything in that time, we scrambled together,” Spencer continued.
The band’s last EP, ‘After Taste’ received a four star review from NME. In that, Andrew Trendell wrote: “[Spencer’s] voice is rife with a cracking and poetic indie troubadour vulnerability not dissimilar to Pete Doherty in solo or early Babyshambles mode as he tries to navigate flailing romance from the car park of Lincoln’s central and overpriced cinema.
“Speaking as a fellow Yellowbelly Lincolnite, this writer has literally been there, but you don’t need to have seen our Cathedral city to get goosebumps when that surprise mandolin kicks in and makes small town life feel all the more epic.”